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  • Case study of MRV Pilot Testing LFG Methodology at Manggar Landfill Balikpapan City

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on July 29, 2021

    Balikpapan City has the vision to be a leading, comfortable, and sustainable city in Indonesia. This vision is also associated with the city’s aspirations to pursue low emission development as an effort to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through several priority sectors, one of which is the waste management sector. The city’s sanitary landfill, locally […]

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  • Luzon LGUs convene to learn about the PH Government Energy Management Program

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on July 28, 2021

    The Philippine Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with the European Union-supported Access to Sustainable Energy Programme (EU ASEP), ASEP Clean Energy Living Laboratories (ASEP-CELLs), ICLEI Southeast Asia (ICLEI SEAS), and the Ateneo School of Government (ASoG), recently organized another online pre-forum session on the Government Energy Management Program (GEMP), a government-wide program that aims […]

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  • ICLEI introduces 100% renewable energy transition toolkit to West Nusa Tenggara

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on July 27, 2021

    in photo above: Rian van Staden from the Global 100% RE Platform emphasized the importance of knowing and identifying relevant natural and human resources before determining the 100% RE goal. Jakarta, Indonesia – ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability Indonesia last 29 June 2021 hosted a virtual workshop introducing the 100% renewable energy (RE) toolkit to […]

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  • Leading Climate Action in Cities: How are Balikpapan City and Bogor City doing it?

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on July 27, 2021

    The cities of Balikpapan and Bogor in Indonesia continue to commit to embed a low emission development approach in their five-year development planning and were supported through the Urban-LEDS II Project. This case study outlines how the process in formulating the Urban-LEDS II CAP—to accelerate the low emission development with a climate resilience focus embedded—adopted […]

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  • Apply to the EcoLogistics Community Challenge 2021!

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on July 26, 2021

    The EcoLogistics Community, organized by ICLEI and Taoyuan City, is pleased to announce the EcoLogistics Challenge 2021 and is inviting local and regional authorities, start-ups and civil organizations to submit a short-term pilot project in transforming last-mile logistics by 15 August 2021. The EcoLogistics Community is seeking a small-scale project in last-mile logistics following one or more of […]

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  • Evaluating the Philippine Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in 2021

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on July 23, 2021

    This article is a contribution from ASEP-CELLs. Two years after the Philippines officially transmitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) and officially committed the country to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by about 70% by 2030 — relative to its usual Business As Usual (BAU) scenario of 2020-2030 — the Duterte administration decided to […]

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